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Are Skis Suppose To Do This?

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vault.
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On September 30th, I picked myself up a pair of 2011 Salomon Suspects. I was hearing overall good things and thought it was the right choice. Now, I am three months into the season, and the 44th day skiing on them. They are absolutely trashed . I have multiple edge cracks that are pulling the edge away from the base. My top sheet is so chipped that you cannot even tell what brand they are when looking down at them.

I know some of you are in this situation too, but i need some guidance on what to do. I have already contacted Salomon, and they asked for me to send my skis in so they could examine them. If I did, I wouldn't have skis to ride on for the rest of the season. My local ski shop said they cannot do anything for either problems. NS, i need some input please!
Mar 5 2012 1:31AM
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JWoods
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!. Buy from Backcountry.com and have free skis for life
2. Stop fucking your skis up
3. ????
4. Profit
Mar 5 2012 1:36AM
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Lucas
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ride them until they are un-rideable
Mar 5 2012 1:40AM
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Kangbang
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Well they are Suspects...

This should be in GT
Mar 5 2012 1:50AM
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californiagrown
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LOL were you considering Boone skis as well, for their stellar reputation? haha
Mar 5 2012 1:53AM
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SkierX
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If you are hitting a lot of rails on a regular basis, the edge cracks are to be expected. Sidewall chips, while less common on cap construction skis, can still happen anytime your edges impact the other skis sidewall, which happens frequently during park skiing.
Mar 5 2012 9:22AM
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SamtheEagle
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salomon skis fall apart but those sound pretty trashed for 44 days. have you been hitting rails a lot? try to warranty them but it sounds like your just hard on your gear.
Mar 5 2012 12:02PM
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tomPietrowski
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After 44 dyas your skis will be fairly trashed, suspects top sheets are not the best, but the edges are about the same as most so the edge damage lickly would happen to any ski.

However Salomon have given you an option of sending them back (to be honest this is pretty amazing, as you have trashed the skis in the park) so I would send them back. Yes you may be without skis for a while, but we just replaced a pair with a delamed nose from hitting a rail, so you never know, you may end up with a brand new pair.
Mar 5 2012 12:48PM
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rareison
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They are Suspects after all. And where did you her good things about them?
Mar 5 2012 4:35PM
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Aiden-P
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Do exactly that.
Mar 24 2012 12:17AM
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max61195
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put some photos up for us to see :)
Mar 24 2012 12:24AM
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skiRay
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suspects = largest flop since invaders / reactors
Mar 24 2012 1:06AM
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KillaSteeze
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care to explain abit more?
Mar 24 2012 2:20AM
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danderson.
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Mar 24 2012 2:44AM
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VD.
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Mar 24 2012 8:46AM
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Mar 24 2012 9:00AM
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rozboon
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Backcountry have an incredibly generous no-questions-asked returns policy which some people like to abuse by trashing their gear doing warranty-voiding stuff (let's not get into park skis having their warranty voided by hitting rails) to get lots of pairs of skis which they then trash on rails.

As for OP, if you've spent 44 days hitting rails on them, they're gonna be trashed. I'd say most things in this world would get pretty broken if you spent 6 hours a day for a month slamming them on a metal bar.

Mar 24 2012 9:17AM
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jdubbs.
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yes please
Mar 24 2012 1:10PM
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Nikkekoivisto
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Heres my suspect edges. the whole edge ripped off, and i moved an old edge from my old 150cm atomic skis edges and attached it to the broken part with 9 pop rivets bunch of glue and other stuff. Theyr working good atm and if the edge cracks again, i just switch another edge part from my old atomics :D win. Suspects wont last for long, thats for sure.
Mar 24 2012 1:33PM
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RudyGarmisch
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No ski is invulnerable to rails. I thought we knew this 5 years ago, but a season of park riding will destroy your skis - half a season to destroy a pair if you stick to the rail garden. I've heard rumors of pro's going through 20+ pairs of skis in a season. Its a solid metal bar versus your thin metal edges, fiberglass and sidewall, the metal bar wins every time.
Mar 24 2012 2:25PM
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RoofDaRoofieDogg
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Will post pics of my 08/09 suspects
Mar 24 2012 2:35PM
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Vino
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Your next step is this :

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After edge cracking and pulled out. Water runs in, and boom. These were my dumonts.




Mar 24 2012 2:42PM
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rozboon
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I have this sneaky theory that that style heelpiece is really prone to slightly pulling out the screws allowing water to get in. I had some on Hellbents and the core on them got water damaged (never hit a single rail) after about 50 days, and I know 2 other people with that heel that have gotten mysterious core water damage. I remounted my pair on some Punx, I wonder how they'll hold up.....
Mar 24 2012 11:21PM
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Ribss.
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That sucks. Ride them until they die, and use backcountry as stated before
Mar 25 2012 12:30AM
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